My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

I think I bit off more than I could chew. I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now... that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.